Amateur Astronomers, Inc.

Telescope Night

Friday, September 26, 2025

Event

This is a special event devoting the entire evening to telescopoes. There will be

5 topics covered: 1. Telescope tune-up, 2. Selecting a telescope, 3. Basic

Collimation, 4. Astrophotography, 5. Navigating the Sky. Members of AAI will be

available to answer questions, provide demonstrations and give hands-on help

with the public's telescopes.

Date: Friday, September 26, 2025

Time: 7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Eastern

Location: Sperry Observatory
1033 Springfield Avenue, Cranford, New Jersey 0701
Cranford, NJ 07016

Information for Visitors
Instructions for the Public:

The doors to the Observatory open at 7:30 pm. There is no specific presentation at 8:30. 

Members of AAI will be available to answer questions, help with the public's telescopes,

and provide demonstrations.

Location Details

Sperry Observatory
William Miller Sperry Observatory on the campus of Union County College campus, 1033 Springfield Avenue, Cranford, New Jersey 07016
1033 Springfield Avenue, Cranford, New Jersey 0701
Cranford, NJ 07016
(click to get directions)
check weather forecast
check clear sky chart
AAI website

Notes:
www.asterism.org (click "Directions")

Event Report

Comments and anecdotes about the event:
People came with their telescopes to learn how to set them up and use them. About 5 came with their telescopes and members of Amateur Astronomers, Inc. worked with them to set them up and showed them how to operate them. There were also questions about astrophotography. One of the members spent time going over their camera equipment, showing how to focus and what settings to use to do astrophotography with a camera and a telescope.